Eminem lyric blasts president

Eminem is on the hot seat again, this time for a lyric that says, “I’d rather see the president dead.”

The Drudge Report Web site printed lyrics Friday from a tape it had obtained, saying that the rapper “shockingly rants” such lines as “I don’t rap for dead presidents. I’d rather see the president dead. It’s never been said, but I set precedents and the standards, and they can’t stand it....”

No president is named, and it is not known how old the recording is.

A spokesman for Interscope Records, Eminem’s label, said Friday: “This is an unfinished song that was either lost or stolen, and there was no determination when, where, how or if it was going to be used. Who knows how it was going to change? Who knows where in the [recording] process it was?” The Detroit rapper is at work on a new album due next year.